in this video I'll show you four simple passive income ideas using these passive
income ideas I am making well into four figures every single month in addition
to my other business income I'm sure that at least one of them will surprise
you so keep watching to find out which one my name is Greg Kononenko
the Caffeinated Blogger and on this channel i put out regular tutorials about making
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alright so the first passive income idea is using Adsense and driving some
automated traffic to pages with Adsense I'm gonna break it down for you
step-by-step show you a couple of examples here as well so the reason why
I like this is because it is completely passive and it is suitable for newbies
so let me show you one of my sites where I use Adsense currently just to give you
an idea in case you are completely new to Adsense and you don't know how it
actually works so there is this is one of these smaller blogs of mine it's in
the travel niche it's called travel crock.com and I'm still making passive
money from this blog even though I haven't really done much with it for a
long time now so as you can see here if you go to any post you will see these
ads so this thing at the top here it says sponsored links and there is a and
ad here there are also ads in the sidebar on the
right and then as you scroll down the page there is also another ad here so
what happens is I'm getting traffic to this blog from Google by people typing
different things into google searching for various tourism and holiday related
keywords they come to this site and as soon as they click on one of these ads I
get paid a certain amount per click okay so it's completely passive I don't need
to do anything all I need to do and you would need to do if you wanted to use
this as a passive income idea is to create some kind of posts with content
put a little bit of code and all these ads show automatically you
need to kind of you know do too much to maintain that or anything like that and
then essentially you would just drive the traffic to this post you can do this
in any niche I've got adsense blogs in three
different niches at the moment and you know you can literally do this in any
niche because Adsense will show ads in any niche that you possibly can think of
I currently make approximately four figures a month with Adsense so it can
be very profitable it is scalable as well and traffic can be automated you
can actually get automated traffic from Pinterest to posts you can get automated
traffic from google voice search so if you search if you create posts on really
low competition keywords then you can rank even as a brand new site you can
rank for a lot of different keywords on Google so once people come to your site
you know wherever they come from if they come from Pinterest if they come from
Google from anywhere as long as they click those ads you're gonna get paid
how much can you make all right so this is a question that you probably guys are
thinking about so you can make anywhere from $1 to $100 per 1000 visits this
will depend on your niche some niches for example niches about legal you know
attorney related things divorce all of those kind of things
Nicias related to credit cards home loans they pay a lot alright if you
manage to get traffic which is of course a little bit more difficult in those
niches but if you manage to get traffic in those niches to your sites you can
make a lot of money with Adsense because advertisers just pay so so much it they
in some instances that by 3050 or even more dollars per one click which is
insane and you get paid a good portion of that by Google now in some other
niches you can get a ton of traffic for example in a dog niche or in a travel
niche you can get a lot of traffic very easily because there's a lot of you know
relatively little competition in those niches but you're gonna make less per
1000 visits now I'm not allowed to disclose exactly how much I make per
1000 visits Google terms actually prohibit that but what I can tell you is
that I make somewhere between 10 and eighty dollars per 1000 visits in all of
my Nicias okay so that's just a rough guideline for you and once again this is
completely passive guys now you might be thinking all right but how do I make a
site that looks like this and how do I actually get traffic to it so on my
channel I actually have videos about all of these I can't go into all of these
detail in this video otherwise it would just be hours long but if you look in
the description below you'll find links to my other videos that will explain you
how to both build the side as well as get the traffic okay so you can get
started with this all of these videos in my channel are completely 100% free cool
so now let's talk about the second one in my list of passive income ideas and
that is reseller hosting before you get scared and kind of run away or fast
forward just hear this out so this is actually completely passive business
it's um I've done a little bit of research on YouTube I don't think a lot
of people have talked about this in these kind of videos but this is
actually a really really awesome idea for you to start building a recurring
income now why okay this might actually initially appeal to people who are sort
of a little bit more technically minded but even if you know nothing about
hosting nothing about setting up servers you could still do this don't get scared
just because this is hosting you know the way that this works you can get a
reseller hosting plan for approximately twenty to twenty-five dollars a month so
let me just show you a couple of things that I've prepared here so one of these
types of hosting is this one called in motion hosting and each as you can see
here their plans start from $15 per month for reseller hosting accounts now
there's also some plans for 21 which are actually a better kind of value for
money so let me just work with this example 21 let's just call it 20 bucks a
month okay now how do you actually make money from this well on this plan that I
just showed before this twenty twenty two dollar plan you can easily have
fifteen accounts that you've sold to others so you buy this account for
twenty dollars a month okay and then you get allocated certain
amount of disk space and bandwidth and all of these other things that hosting
customers actually need then you can create you can sell to others this space
you can break it down okay so you buy all of this space you break it down and
to let's say ten fifteen or twenty or however many counts you want and you can
sell it to others and how much can you charge others well you can you can
charge anywhere from four to ten dollars a month that seems to be the going
market rate for smaller kind of accounts obviously these are gonna be accounts
for small blogs all right massive blogs require big hosting so
you'd be looking at kind of newbie people who really want those budget kind
of solutions okay and you can charge them anywhere from let's say four to ten
dollars a month for the kind of plans that you can set up on this $20 per
month account so what that means is that you can bring in on that one account for
twenty bucks a month you can bring in anywhere from sixty two hundred and
fifty dollars a month depending how you decide to structure it and that is
recurring ongoing because I tell you one thing once people sign up for hosting
they pretty much don't leave because it's you know once they've got their
site somewhere they don't move I have not moved my hosting in I don't know how
five years I think you know I just continue paying and I pay a lot I pay
close to $200 a month for all of my hosting combined I just stay with one
company it's way too complicated to move to a different hosting provider so
people will just stay so as you can see you can sort of Grove this right once
you get this twenty dollar plan you sell these accounts then you can get higher
value plans if you're getting more and more customers and it becomes more and
more cost efficient and more and more profitable for you so it is mostly
passive and automated if you do occasionally get random client support
requests that might ask you a particular question so what you would do then is
you would simply copy and paste it to a 24/7 dedicated support team which all of
these hosting providers have so 24/7 customer support so basically you just
copy on paste the support ticket to the
technical team and they will answer it for you very very quickly so that's
another great passive income idea that you can explore okay now let's talk
about number three passive income idea so it would be
recurring affiliate programs so how does this actually work
well all you need to do is you need to recommend quality product you need to
get someone to click your link whether it's on social media on your site or
somewhere else and buy something now a lot of people do affiliate marketing
maybe you are doing affiliate marketing yourself as well but what a lot of
people do not focus on and I did not really focus on up until recently is one
recurring affiliate programs because once you bring in a sale like that you
actually get paid every single month month after month especially if it's a
good high-quality service you can make really good money it's very profitable
and it works in any niche so let me show you an example of what I'm talking about
them okay so for example my here is here is my website caffeinated blogger.com
here is one of the Articles that I've got posted on my site it's three traffic
sources okay and it's getting good traction getting a
good number of shares good number of visitors now I've got certain affiliate
links here in the article for example where I talk about tailwind and how you
can get traffic from Pinterest using tailwind I've got this link here and if
someone clicks this link this is my finit link it's a special type of
tracking link you can see here long line of mumbo-jumbo okay this is special
affiliate link then we'll land on this page and if they sign up then they sign
up will be tracked to my name on the tracking software so a lot of people
have been signing up from here and from various other places where I've got
links to tail wind now telling affiliate program is really really good because
when I show you here inside my ShareASale account this is where
tailwind affiliate program actually leaves they pay 50 cents per leads so
anyone who just signs up for a free trial accounts I get 50 cents
for that okay but then a lot of these accounts actually end up upgrading to
monthly and yearly plans and I get paid a percentage of these ongoing monthly
sales so for example this is a $2 and 25 cent Commission as you can see this is
15% of the sale amount which is 15 bucks monthly planned $15 a month someone
upgraded and I'm gonna get paid every month for this this is the exciting part
about and once people sign up for a good quality service they will just stay all
right and your portfolio so to speak of these recurring commissions will
actually continue growing month after month so all you need to do is just get
people to click your link sign up for this program and you can gonna continue
getting paid every single month month after month now as I told you before
this actually works in any niche so my caffeine and a blogger website of course
is in the online marketing space online marketing niche but just a quick Google
search will reveal lots of excellent programs for example here is a post on
the niche hacks con website and they've got a really good amount of information
here in regards to various affiliate programs and they've listed a ton of
recurring affiliate programs as well so for example here is in the health niche
there is LC SMD okay there is recurring sales that they paint there is another
one in romance affiliate programs once again there are recurring monthly
programs and the good thing is that these programs have actually been tested
and optimized for conversions all you need to do in your niche is just find
those programs which is not very hard just use Google it's pretty easy and you
will continue getting paid month after month you can sort of build your
residual affiliate Commission pool okay and you don't have to create a product
for this you don't need to do any customer service or all of those really
painful things as a product creator myself I know it's very very difficult
to create a product it's very difficult to market that product and then to make
sales of that product and then it's very time consuming to do customer service as
an affiliate if you're promoting those recurring programs you don't have to
deal with any of this let's move on to before in this list of passive income
ideas so the number four idea is YouTube now YouTube is in my honest opinion is
probably the biggest opportunity out there right now it's just insanely
crazily powerful I personally ignored YouTube for a very long time
I really regret this now my thinking about it always was I'm actually really
shy to be on camera I don't want to be on camera but I got over that fear you
know I still get really nervous every time I get on the camera I prepare for a
long time sometimes it takes me five hours to prepare for a video and to get
myself into this mindset of okay I'm going to be on camera I got a I'm gonna
be sharp I got to be energetic I got to be positive that's what stops a lot of
people and that's actually a good thing because what happens is most people like
99.99999% of people in the world don't do YouTube so if you are brave enough to
start a YouTube channel and start putting out your videos out there you
know you might kind of not be very good at the very start but you will get
better as the time goes on and as you make those videos you actually get paid
per what's called a monetized view there is kind of a little thing around that
your channel has to be has to grow you have to have for thousands of watch
hours before you can apply to have your video is monetized but you can get there
within a relatively short amount of time now let me just show you you know just
in case you're wondering how am I going to grow my YouTube channel and and all
that kind of stuff I will actually show you something here
so these are my stats for the last 365 days now at the end of December so a
year ago I was at approximately 800 subscribers on YouTube I didn't do
anything with YouTube for a very long time I just continued kind of slowly
getting subscribers whenever I put out the video here and there but I was not
focusing on it now I've got 12,000 subscribers on my youtube channel and
the big growth came when I started focusing on it from July till now okay
so in the last six months I haven't I've only been doing probably three
two four videos per month maximum maybe even like two to three but this is the
growth that I have had so I have gone from about less than one thousand
subscribers to twelve thousand subscribers in one year and I've only
really worked on this you know sporadically between July and December
so these two shows you the potential how much can you actually make if you start
a YouTube channel well the range will once again depend on your niche because
you get paid essentially per monetized views so this is a view where there is a
pool of willing people who want to advertise on your channel but general
range seems to be if you look around on on the internet seems to be between $1
and $20 per 1000 views once again depends heavily on your niche but this
amount is actually ongoing so what I mean by that is you might put out a
video and perhaps it will only make you fifty cents a day okay it doesn't sound
like a lot does it but if you think about this this is like a snowball the
more videos you put out and even if each video is just making you fifty cents a
day every single day after 30 days you'll be at a point where you're making
$15 per day completely passively it just continues ticking away for you and it
will kind of grow because the more your channel grows the more Authority your
channel collects the more views you're going to attract the more subscribers
you going to attract so it's kind of like a snowball once it starts growing
it just keeps growing faster and faster and faster and you can also do other
things in your videos you don't have to just monetize with YouTube you can sell
your own things via the links in the description of why what you say in the
video you can build your email list you can put affiliate links so let me just
show you what I'm talking about there for example this is my video on YouTube
how to get traffic to your website are published this basically two months ago
I've had 36 thousand views on it so far as you can see it's ranking for a lot of
really good tags for example for tags website traffic how to get traffic to
your website and so and in the description here and actually
in the video I talked about Pinterest traffic so people click this link and
they if they subscribe once again I get paid a commission okay so you can you
don't have to just monetize with ads even before you hit that 4000 which
hours which will qualify you for YouTube ads you can make money by selling your
staff putting affiliate links and so on so these are the four passive income
ideas that I wanted to talk to you guys about today if you enjoyed this content
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